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D. H. Lawrence: Rabbit in the House
.Young Hare: Albrecht Dürer, 1502, watercolour and gouache on paper, 251 x 226 mm (Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna)   When we were children our father often worked on the night-shift. Once it was...
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D. H. Lawrence: Self-Pity
.Cat sun: photo by Alex Holden, 29 July 2012I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.A small bird will drop frozen dead from a boughwithout ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence:...
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Joseph Ceravolo: Cat of Eternity
.Street cat, Morocco: photo by Albert Jacob, 18 November 2008About 2 feet from the curb, in the streeta cat was crouched. From afar I thoughtit was sniffing, but as I got closerI knew. It was looking...
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Air
.Lathyrus odoratus (Sweet pea) and Gypsophila elegans (Showy baby's-breath), Kyoto, Japan: photo by Juni, 25 January 2005 The sweet peas, pale diapersOf pink and powder blue, are flagsOf a water color...
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Blue Heaven
.Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus): photo by Susanne Wilk, 31 October 2011PoppySweet pea...............................Bluebell spumoniOn white, please, and a dash of air Here, too, where the sky is...
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Oculus
.Ceiling Oculus: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, fresco, diameter 270 cm (Camera degli Sposi Ducale, Mantua)If the poor puttiTootedOn dutyOne must forgive themOne can't blame them for feeling...
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W. H. Auden: Old People's Home
.Walkers on the Staudammkrone dam at Lüner Lake, Austria: photo by Friedrich Böhringer, 17 February 2010       All are limitory, but each has her own nuance of damage. The elite can dress and decent...
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Frank O'Hara / Marie Wintzer: Jeux des mots et des images
. Lucky Charm TTV: photo by Marie Wintzer, 7 March 2011I am not a painter, I am a poet.Why? I think I would rather bea painter, but I am not. Well,for instance, Mike Goldbergis starting a painting. I...
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W. H. Auden: On the Circuit
.Swissair Flight 111. On September 2, 1998, the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft on Flight 111 from New York to Geneva crashed into the waters off Nova Scotia after an in-flight fire, killing all...
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"I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars"
.I should tolerate the closeness of 2-3 caterpillars, if I want to get to to know butterflies: textured photo by Marie Wintzer, 26 November 2011It was then that the fox appeared."Good morning," said...
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D. H. Lawrence: Delight of Being Alone
.Ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior), Nes, Hedmark, Norway: photo by John Erling Blad, 6 July 2008I know no greater delight than the sheer delight of being alone. It makes me realise the delicious pleasure...
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Evening
.Obaa san Ogii san: textured photo by Marie Wintzer, 14 May 2013........It is evening, autumn; I think only........of my parents.Buson (1715-1783): "It is evening, autumn...", translated by Reginald...
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Commuting
.Bus stop sign near Portola School in El Cerrito: photo by efo, 3 July 2006The humiliation of beingconstantly observedby a hostile or derisive eyeis certainly no jokebut neither isnot being able to...
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Moment
.Melted clock, Cass Technical High School: photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl), 2010Man talking to supervisorconflicted gestures of submission at odds with hate...
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Particulate
.Children play in yard of Ruston, Washington home, while Tacoma Smelter stack showers area with arsenic and lead residue: photo by Gene Daniels, August 1972It's hard to tell the clouds from the...
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Dimitar Berbatov: Touch of Genius as The Stranger
.Any excuse to trot this one out: photo by Ben Melvin/Rex Features (via The Guardian, 20 August 2012)Dimitar Berbatov grew up on the mean streets of the the bleak Bulgarian mining town of Blagoevgrad,...
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Sky Above Clouds
Sky Above Clouds iii: Georgia O'Keeffe, 1965, oil on canvasSolar emeralds melt and blendIn a slow flash flowSilver eucalyptus sails aboveWaves of lavenderWe rise at daybreakLight opens its pure...
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Dawn Moon
.DawnMoon: photo by Tom Raworth, 31 May 2010what is donein the darkthe nightclocks outdew onthe grassone thought singingto itselfor someoneelseof a greatundonenessDew drops on a spider web: photo by...
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Padlocked Heart
.Chief Joseph (c. 1840-1904): photo by Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1962), 1903; orotone print by Jean-Anthony du Lac (1929-1982), 1980, 58.7 x 48 cm (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution...
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Untergang (Party's Over): Bertolt Brecht / Gerhard Richter
.Party: Gerhard Richter, 1963. mixed media, 150 x 182 cm (Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden)And I always thought: the very simplest wordsMust be enough. When I say what things are likeEveryone's heart...
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